Sociolinguistics week 7

How many affirmations of racism are given in the reading?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

'a ___________is never anything other than a defeated language

• dialect

• language

a ___________ is a dialect which has succeeded politically

• tribe

• language

A form part of an essentially racist ideology states "the rule is that we are a nation with a __________, whereas they are tribes with __________".

• language/dialects

• dialects/language

The term itself is nor unambiguous, as a '___________' may be the language of the biological mother or father, or a local vehicular language

• language

• national language

• mother tongue

• dialect

'____________' is now generally used, both in its technical sense and in popular speech, to mean a localized nonstandard or substandard language

• dialect

• vernacular

• national language

• lingua franca

A ___________ is 'the language of a political, social, and cultural entity', and an ___________ is 'a language used in the business of government-legislative, executive, and judicial'

• national language/official language

• official language/dialect

• official language/national language

a _____________ is 'a language that is used for communication between different groups of people, each speaking a different language

• official language

• national language

• lingua franca

• vernacular speech

'_____________' is used as a technical term to describe the 'development' process, the transition from traditional to so-called modern principles of economic, political, and social organization.

• development

• underdeveloped

• dominant

• modernization

Any of the following six characteristics may classify a country as the ____________: non-aligned, non-industrial, ex-colonial, poor, populist, and peripheral/marginal/dependent

• modernized

• underdevelopment

• third world

• dominant